lista
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#419
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lista is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pedazo de papel, lienzo u otra cosa análoga, largo y angosto. Pronounced [ˈlist̪a]. It ranks #419 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with lit and lost.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lista |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlist̪a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lista is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlist̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #419 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for lista, with forms such as "ilsta", "lisat", and "lissta". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lit", "lost", "losa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is lista, spelled L-I-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pedazo de papel, lienzo u otra cosa análoga, largo y angosto.
- 2Tira de distinto color que el fondo en algunas cosas.
- 3Raya.
- 4Serie de nombres, de apuntes, de noticias, etc., puestos por orden; nómina, catálogo, etc.
- 5Nota de las viandas que se sirven en una fonda, y de sus precios.
- 6Recuento que se hace de viva voz de las personas asistentes a algún acto, nombrándolas y notando su falla si no responden.
- 7Catálogo.
- 8Forma codificada de organización mediante la numeración de datos para mejor almacenamiento, procesamiento o visualización de la información.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilsta,lisat,lissta,listta,litsa,llista,lsita
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "lista"
Frequency rank: #419 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter L in our Spanish index: